State (polity)

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Crafting the Neoliberal State: Workfare, Prisonfare, and Social Insecurity1

Abstract: In Punishing the Poor, I show that the ascent of the penal state in the United States and other advanced societies over the past quarter-century is a response to rising social insecurity, not criminal insecurity; that changes in welfare and justice policies are interlinked, as restrictive ‘‘workfare’’ and expansive ‘‘prisonfare’’ are coupled into a single organizational contraption to discipline the precarious fractions of the postindustrial working class; and that a diligent carceral system is not a deviation from, but a constituent component of, the neoliberal Leviathan. In this article, I draw out the theoretical implications of this diagnosis of the emerging government of social insecurity. I deploy Bourdieu’s concept of ‘‘bureaucratic field’’ to revise Piven and Cloward’s classic thesis on the regulation of poverty via public assistance, and contrast the model of penalization as technique for the management of urban marginality to Michel Foucault’s vision of the ‘‘disciplinary society,’’ David Garland’s account of the ‘‘culture of control,’’ and David Harvey’s characterization of neoliberal politics. Against the thin economic conception of neoliberalism as market rule, I propose a thick sociological specification entailing supervisory workfare, a proactive penal state, and the cultural trope of ‘‘individual responsibility.’’ This suggests that we must theorize the prison not as a technical implement for law enforcement, but as a core political capacity whose selective and aggressive deployment in the lower regions of social space violates the ideals of democratic citizenship.

Start-up nation : the story of Israel's economic miracle

Abstract: START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 71 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK? With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine the lessons of the country's adversity-driven culture, which flattens hierarchy and elevates informality - all backed up by government policies focused on innovation In a world where economies as diverse as Ireland, Singapore and Dubai have tried to re-create the "Israel effect", there are entrepreneurial lessons well worth noting As America reboots its own economy and can-do spirit, there's never been a better time to look at this remarkable and resilient nation for some impressive, surprising clues

Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State and Symbolic Exchange

Abstract: 1. Writing the state 2. Examining the sovereignty/intervention boundary 3. Interpretive approaches 4. Concert of Europe interventions in Spain and Naples 5. Wilson administration actions in the Mexican and Bolshevik revolutions 6. United States invasions of Grenada and Panama 7. Symbolic exchange and the state.

Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution

Abstract: Introduction Part I. Crisis and Neoliberalism 1. The Strange Dynamics of Change 2. Economic Crises and Social Orders Part II. Crisis and Unemployment 3. The Structural Crisis of the 1970s and 1980s 4. Technical Progress: Accelerating or Slowing? 5. America and Europe: The Creator of Jobs and the Creator of Unemployment 6. Controlling Labor Costs and Reining in the Welfare State 7. Unemployment: Historical Fate? 8. The End of the Crisis? Part III. The Law of Finance 9. The Interest Rate Shock and the Weight of Dividends 10. Keynesian State Indebtedness and Household Indebtedness 11. An Epidemic of Financial Crises 12. Globalization under Hegemony 13. Financialization: Myth or Reality? 14. Does Finance Feed the Economy? 15. Who Benefits from the Crime? Part IV. The Lessons of History 16. Historical Precedent: The Crisis at the End of the Nineteenth Century 17. The End of the Structural Crises: Does the Twentieth Century Resemble the Nineteenth? 18. Two Periods of Financial Hegemony: The Beginning and the End of the Twentieth Century 19. Inherent Risks: The 1929 Precedent 20. Capital Mobility and Stock Market Fever 21. Between Two Periods of Financial Hegemony: Thirty Years of Prosperity Part V. History on the March 22. A Keynesian Interpretation 23. The Dynamics of Capital Appendix A. Other Studies by the Authors Appendix B. Sources and Calculations Notes Index

The Rise of the Region State

Abstract: THE NATION STATE has become an unnatural, even dysfunctional, unit for organizing human activ ity and managing economic endeavor in a borderless world. It represents no genuine, shared community of eco nomic interests; it defines no meaningful flows of economic activity. In fact, it overlooks the true linkages and synergies that exist among often disparate populations by combining important measures of human activity at the wrong level of analysis. For example, to think of Italy as a single economic entity ignores the reality of an industrial north and a rural south, each vastly different in its ability to contribute and in its need to receive. Treating Italy as a single economic unit forces one?as a private sector manager or a public sector official?to operate on the basis of false, implausible and nonexistent averages. Italy is a country with great disparities in industry and income across regions. On the global economic map the lines that now matter are those defining what may be called "region states." The bound aries of the region state are not imposed by political fiat. They are drawn by the deft but invisible hand of the global market for goods and services. They follow, rather than precede, real flows of human activity, creating nothing new but ratifying existing patterns manifest in countless individual decisions. They represent no threat to the political borders of any nation, and they have no call on any taxpayer's money to finance military forces to defend such borders. Region states are natural economic zones. They may or may not fall within the geographic limits of a particular